now do ya think the election cycle is too long?

No one seems to be taking credit for this piece [psst? alZawahiri?] but Allapundit is speculating at HotAir.  Ok—whose fingerprints do you see?

This, right after vanilla ice cream with warmed blackberries…

An off-duty Northwest Airlines employee was arrested after a woman on a flight from Seattle complained that the man had ejaculated on her.

What an icky-ICKY man.
Icky...icky...ICKY....icky…

Thanks Stoo

Two world-renowned Harvard professors – Alan M. Dershowitz and Steven Pinker – faced off last week in a debate over whether latkes or hamentaschen rules in Jewish cuisine.

Dershowitz, the Frankfurter Law Professor who has defended the likes of famous murder suspects O.J. Simpson and Claus von Bulow, argued on behalf of the classic Purim hamentaschen.

Pinker, the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology, stood up for the Ashkenazi Chanukah favorite, the potato latke.

~SNIP~
Dershowitz, a criminal lawyer and civil rights activist who specializes in the defense of high-profile personalities, attacked the latke with gusto. Addiction, dependence on oil, and high cholesterol became fodder for his character assassination of the fried potato pancake.

Pinker countered with an assertion that the three-cornered hamentaschen, particularly the poppy seed-filled variety, constituted an irregular plural which is tainted by its relationship to drugs, terrorism, inner-city crime and civil war in Latin America.

Good luck, Coop!

One by one, more than 80 players seated on a back field of the Padres’ spring training complex stood and gave their names and where they were last season.

“Jesus Lopez. Fort Wayne. Eugene.”

Class-A teammates laughed and teased.

“Michael Johnson. Pittsburgh Pirates. Indianapolis.”

The group welcomed Johnson into the organization.

Then a tall, broad-shouldered and tanned No. 40 stood.

”Cooper Brannan. United States Marine Corps.”

FreeRepublic

sweet and sour red purple cabbage
(cabbage simmered in butter, sugar and Balsamic vinegar)

boiled potatoes with butter and caraway

pork blade steak with BBQ sauce
(I know:)

OH! And vanilla ice-cream with warmed blackberries for dessert.

taking drill Sergeant a leedle too far......

............”a technique that he had used previously to help soldiers with their self-confidence and alleviate depression,” ..............

(I was going to PhotoShop John Edwards’ head onto the pic but.......)

SteveH

Yes, indeed I am.

OK, so yesterday morning, I had to get up with the baby, so I was conscious while Meet the Press was on, and didn’t have the motivation to change the channel.  And Murtha was talking, and Joey Douchebag, whatever his name is, the host, was trying to troll Murtha.  He played a Cheney clip talking about Murtha’s withdrawal strategy validating al-Quaeda’s Strategy.  He (Douchebag) was all, “So does Cheney suck fo comparing you to the Taliban, or what?” And Murtha was all “Naw, dog, it’s all good, Cheney’s aight, we’re tight like that.  And Douchebag was all, “But dawg, you’re a MARINE, you can kill him with your thumb!” And Murtha was all “Nah, man, chill.” And Douchebag was all, “But he thinks you da ENEMY, man!” And Murtha was all “Naw, it ain’t like dat.  I was chillin at his crib the other night, smacked his old lady on the ass, we were discussing a little green, ya dig?”

MR. RUSSERT: Vice President Cheney weighed in on your thinking. He said, quote, “I think, in fact, if we were to do what Speaker Pelosi and Congressman Murtha are suggesting, all we’ll do is validate the al-Qaeda strategy. The al-Qaeda strategy is to break the will of the American people—in fact, knowing they can’t win in a stand-up fight, try to persuade us to throw in the towel and come home, and then they” can “win because we quit.” How does it feel to be linked with al-Qaeda by the vice president?

REP. MURTHA: Yeah. Well, it’s, it’s unfortunate that the vice president does not have the—he doesn’t listen to what I’m saying. We can’t send troops into combat without equipment. We can’t send troops into combat without training. We can’t extend them past the one-year boots-on-the-ground policy that they have. And, and we can’t continue to have them over there in Iraq more than—more than a year. That’s what he’s, he’s not saying. That—he’s not—and he’s not saying our strategic reserve and the future threats to this country significantly increased in the last year because we have no ground strategic reserve. That’s what he’s not saying. So he attacks my, my differences, but he doesn’t attack the policy. He doesn’t talk about the policy and the results of what I’m saying.

MR. RUSSERT: But you’re a Marine. You like being linked with al-Qaeda?

REP. MURTHA: Well, they’ll take care of al-Qaeda. Let me—let me tell you this, Tim. Al-Qaeda will be taken care of by the Iraqis. They know who—there’re only 2,000 al-Qaeda. They’re Iraqis fighting Iraqis. It’s a civil war between the Shias and the, the Sunni. And they won’t negotiate. The Shias won’t negotiate with the Sunni. What, what I—what I found out when I was out there last time just a month ago, the Sunnis are not going to help in this whole process as long as the Shias control it and won’t negotiate with the Sunnis. Now, this may seem like an incidental point, but this is probably the most important point. They won’t change their constitution to give the Sunnis some influence in this whole thing. They’ve got to work it out themselves. We cannot do it for them.

MR. RUSSERT: Do you think the vice president’s questioning your patriotism?

REP. MURTHA: No, I don’t think so. No, I, I, I met with the vice president the other day. We talked about the money. We talked about some of the things that, that I felt were important. And I said to him, “We can’t send these troops in without equipment, without training. It can’t be done. If you do that, it’s a disservice to our troops and to the families, the small percentage of families that are fighting this war.”

MR. RUSSERT: Did he apologize to you?

REP. MURTHA: Oh, no. No, no. That, that, you know, this is one of those things where, where he said that overseas. He didn’t blame me for, at least, getting the British out. You know, I thought he might blame me for getting the British out. But he didn’t do that.

Anyhoo, short story long:  Douchebag was looking for headlines and didn’t get any.  And while Murtha’s foreign policy would doom us, at least he’s not the shrill little bitch I thought he was.

giving new meaning to “Members Only”

First to the Sudan [3/1],

new lead for Caveman series

to give a little talk, ”Iran and the World.”

Then off to smooch with his cousins and our pals in the House of Saud*. [3/4] I’da loved to be one of the multitude of flies on that wall… Whaddya think was said?

*Really; shouldn’t that just be a hairdressing salon?  [Before the Gala I went to the House of Saud and got a cut, color—the works!]

And here’s a little Valentine for MiniMahdi-philes courtesy of AFP.

She’d unleash a profanity-laden tirade on his sorry Christbot ass.

Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards says Jesus would be appalled at how the United States has ignored the plight of the suffering, and that he believes children should have private time to pray at school.

Edwards, in an interview with the Web site Beliefnet.com, said Jesus would be most upset with the selfishness of Americans and the country’s willingness to go to war “when it’s not necessary.”

“I think that Jesus would be disappointed in our ignoring the plight of those around us who are suffering and our focus on our own selfish short-term needs,” Edwards told the site. “I think he would be appalled, actually.”

I think Jesus would have a few choice words to say about Johnny’s clear as day hypocrisy.  Yannow - stuff like this:

The 28,200-square-foot Edwards home in Orange County is expected to be valued at more than $6 million.

Is Johnny providing housing for any destitute people in the palatial expanse?  World class lecher, that dude…

the second one

I note that Hillary Belle “don’t feel no ways tired.”

And that Barry Baroque is sufficiently black.  for now…

Everyone’s clucking and crowing over Ann Coulter’s remarks but Shamela really ramps it up:
(From Wolcott and yes, I’ll link to him because I concur)

As far as Coulter’s out of the left field “faggot” remark goes—it may have been a poor choice of words but further Atlas investigation reveals John Edwards campaign has a mostly gay staff and rumors about his sexuality are rife. Just for knowing.

The fact is if there is any true to these rumors, that perhaps Edwards is gay, shouldn’t we know that? Shouldn’t we know if this man is deceiving his wife, children, country and living a lie? Shouldn’t we know if a man that represents the party that celebrates gay rights is so ashamed of it, he lives a ginormous lie?
---“Atlas”

Look, we joke and and heckle more than any group I know but this goes way too far.......and borders on some laws we have about asserting shit like this.
just for knowing.

*hugs*

Apologies for being so vague. That’s Malkin embracing “Atlas” at CPAC. Distancing.

That’ll learn ‘er!

A new study by German scientists of spiders’ copulation techniques found that males leave part of their sex organ inside their female partner as a sort of “chastity belt” to deter rivals.

”By breaking off parts of their intromittent organs inside a virgin female, males can reduce sperm competition and thereby increase their paternity success,” the Bonn University researchers wrote in the journal “Behavioral Ecology”.

After setting the tone by shaking the female’s web, the male has only seconds to have sex before the larger female kills him. In over 80 percent of cases, the tip of the male’s genital organ breaks off inside the female.

This appears to be the result of a hasty getaway—but also leaves behind a sort of chastity belt that keeps other males away, the study showed.

fire up your resourcefulness engines

Is there such a thing as a satellite fone that will connect with the InterToobs directly from anywhere on the planet?

Cuz I really hate to hear Michael Yon say “I am choking on information that will never be published simply due to lack on reliable internet connections.”

Can anything be done?

BONUS!!! there, I fixed it:

We’ve got to get better at telling the success stories of Africa Iraq in addition to the horror stories.....

you can pick yur nose and your friends but…

Police arrested three people early Monday during a protest of Iraq-bound Army vehicles at a Washington state port. [supporting the troops!]

Several dozen people showed up at the Port of Tacoma to protest the shipment of Stryker vehicles and other equipment from Fort Lewis. Caitlin Esworthy, Walter Cuddeford and Jeffery Berryhill were arrested for investigation of assault.

Zoltan Grossman, a geography professor at Evergreen State College in Olympia who was observing the protest, said he didn’t know what prompted the arrests.

Esworthy is an Evergreen State student, and Cuddeford is a Navy veteran [ hey, I won the Silver Telephone Award from MassPIRG TWICE a few moons ago, too], he said.

“There were no rocks, no weapons. People were not carrying anything but signs,” Grossman said. “We were on public space, on gravel, and there was a white line that police had told us not to cross. I didn’t see any of the protesters cross that line.”

Last May, hundreds of protesters objected to similar shipments at the Port of Olympia. Police pepper-sprayed some protesters who pulled down a port gate, and about three dozen people were arrested over several days.

I’ve been wanting to share some stuff about the Cuddeford dude because he’s such a retard but didn’t have a segue. But now…
This guy quit his job to be Lt. Ehren Watada’s “bodyguard” and now calls himself homeless as well as unemployed *snerk*.
I know his brother pretty well and he’s a super guy.
Sorry Wally’s brother, you can’t pick your relatives. But you can laugh at them.

Look familiar?

The big mouth chick at this point in the video sounds eerily like Ponch Girl, too.
And upon further reflection, the “protest” at the recruiting center imho wasn’t to be a “protest” from the get-go. The center was closed, they had no signs or puppet heads but most of all were the 3 of them I observed with bandanas at their chests tied for face covering and one in the back pocket........

Amanda Hugginkiss

Protein Wisdom

I’m the invisible bus driver!!!

A King County Metro Transit driver was arrested on suspicion of voyeurism Sunday after a woman reported him peeping into her apartment window, apparently during a break from his route, police said.

Witnesses said they saw a man wandering around the woman’s Ballard apartment about midnight, peeking several times into her windows and at one point crouching to press his face against the glass. When the woman’s boyfriend came out and confronted him with a golf club, he got into a bus and drove away, according to Seattle police reports.

The 4,000-square-foot house is a model of environmental rectitude.

Geothermal heat pumps located in a central closet circulate water through pipes buried 300 feet deep in the ground where the temperature is a constant 67 degrees; the water heats the house in the winter and cools it in the summer. Systems such as the one in this “eco-friendly” dwelling use about 25% of the electricity that traditional heating and cooling systems utilize.

A 25,000-gallon underground cistern collects rainwater gathered from roof runs; wastewater from sinks, toilets and showers goes into underground purifying tanks and is also funneled into the cistern. The water from the cistern is used to irrigate the landscaping surrounding the four-bedroom home. Plants and flowers native to the high prairie area blend the structure into the surrounding ecosystem.

No, this is not the home of some eccentrically wealthy eco-freak trying to shame his fellow citizens into following the pristineness of his self-righteous example. And no, it is not the wilderness retreat of the Sierra Club or the Natural Resources Defense Council, a haven where tree-huggers plot political strategy.

This is President George W. Bush’s “Texas White House” outside the small town of Crawford.........

Secret Service agents have questioned an Alameda man about a display in his front yard featuring a cardboard cutout of President Bush with a knife through his head.Michael McDonald said he was grilled for about 90 minutes by two agents who asked about his personal history and his political views. They also asked him to allow access to his medical records, he said.

The cutout also shows painted blood running over the president’s eyes and down the bridge of his nose.

McDonald said the federal agents asked if he interpreted his work as a threat against the country’s chief executive. He said he didn’t.

“They said, ‘You’ve got a knife sitting in the head of the president of the United States,’” McDonald told The Oakland Tribune. “I said, ‘No, I got a knife in a piece of cardboard.’”

McDonald, 55, said he has been placing art in his front yard for 13 years. He rotates the pieces monthly.

The Bush piece remains in place. He painted over the president’s likeness in yellow and penciled in a swastika on the chest. The knife still pierces the forehead, running through a recently added sign that says, “Anonymous.”

I say we all make up cardboard cut-outs of all the folks that squeal jackbooted harassment of this guy and..........

does this carbonfoot print make my ass look fat?

“What if a small group of world leaders were to conclude that the principal risk to the Earth comes from the actions of rich countries? And if the world is to survive, those rich countries would have to sign an agreement reducing their impact on the environment. Will they do it? The group’s conclusion is “no.” The rich countries won’t do it. They won’t change. So, in order to save the planet, the group decides: Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about? This group of world leaders form a secret society to bring about an economic collapse.”—Maurice Strong, secretary general, 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development

Gore Funding Plan For “A New World Order” at Rehl World View = TODazE Must Read

LLoyd, doing his share to add CO²

Boazo

EminAnn

For UnfrozenCavemanLawyerAuthor:

February 12, 2001
Web posted at: 8:11 AM EST (1311 GMT)

LOS ANGELES—Eminem, the hugely popular rapper often denounced as homophobic, will perform a duet at the Grammy Awards this month with Elton John, a champion of many gay causes.
Eminem’s performance was announced on Friday by National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences President Michael Greene.

The duet, rumoured for weeks, was confirmed by John in an interview in Saturday’s edition of the Los Angeles Times.

John said Eminem came up with the idea.

“I’m a big fan of his music, and I said I would be delighted to,” the British superstar told the Times. “I know I’m going to get a lot of flak from various people who are going to picket the show.

“If I thought for one minute that he was (hateful), I wouldn’t do it,” he said.

Eminem has drawn frequent criticism for his lyrics which include references to “fags,” fantasies of raping his own mother and jokes about domestic violence.

The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation called Eminem’s participation in the event offensive and was particularly disappointed by John’s decision to perform with him.

“It’s hurtful,” said Scott Seomin, entertainment media director for GLAAD. “It’s embarrassing.”

Last year, the group honoured Elton John with an award for his efforts in fighting homophobia. “Elton’s actions now totally violate the spirit of this award,” Seomin said.

Eminem is nominated for album of the year for The Marshall Mathers LP and in three rap categories. The album sold 7.9 million copies in the United States last year.

An unidentified number of Iranian women activists were arrested Sunday in Tehran, the ISNA news agency reported.

A group of women had gathered in front of the revolutionary court - in charge of cases related to national security - in support of activists arrested last June during a demonstration in Tehran which had demanded more rights for women in Islamic Iran.

As the women had not previously informed the Interior Ministry, the police declared the gathering illegal and tried to disperse the protestors.

The general prosecutor of Tehran issued an arrest warrant after the women resisted arrest, and an unspecified number of women were transferred to the notorious Evin prison in north Tehran, ISNA said, without providing further details.

Odds by sportsbook.com

*clickat*

darthcrUSAderworldtour2007

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Where dem crazy blog bux go

Or has this article been completely re-written from this morning?

The playlist on the bottom of the left hand sidebar (that I’m trying here in the post maybe later) that no one pays attention to has been updated.

Swamp Thing is dedicated to Britney tonight.......

All sass aside, it’s a real good one. The whole list.

Get your official Coldplay toilet paper here!

When Coldplay released its second hit album, A Rush of Blood to the Head, the band said that part of the environmental damage caused by its production would be offset by the planting of 10,000 mango trees in southern India.

More than four years after the album’s release, however, many of Coldplay’s good intentions have withered in the arid soil of Gudibanda, Karnataka state, where the saplings it sponsored were planted.

The idea of saving the world while making music was proposed by Future Forests, a British company since renamed CarbonNeutral. It declared that the scheme would soak up carbon dioxide emissions and help to improve the livelihoods of local farmers.

”You can dedicate more saplings in Coldplay’s forest, a specially-selected section in Karnataka, India,” its website said. For £17.50, fans could invest in the scheme and receive a certificate packaged in a tube bearing the words “The Coldplay Forest”.

Other musicians, including Dido, KT Tunstall and Feeder followed Coldplay’s example. CarbonNeutral meanwhile, gave the task of planting the trees to a group called Women for Sustainable Development (WSD), as part of a £33,000 contract. WSD is headed by Anandi Sharan Mieli, 44, born in Switzerland of Indian origin and a Cambridge graduate. She now claims that the scheme was doomed from the outset.

In the impoverished villages of Varlakonda, Lakshmisagara and Muddireddihalli, among the dozen that Miss Mieli said had received mango saplings, no one had heard of Coldplay. Most of those who received saplings said they had not been given funding for labour, insecticide or spraying equipment to nurture them.

One woman, called Jayamma was the only person out of 130 families in Lakshmisagara, to receive saplings from Miss Meili, according to Ashwattamma, a farmer’s wife. She said: “No one else got any trees. Some of us were offered saplings but we don’t have any water.”

Jayamma managed to get 50 of her 150 trees to survive because she had a well on her land. “I was promised 2,000 rupees (£26) every year to take care of the plants and a bag of fertiliser. But I got only the saplings,” she said.

BRITNEY Spears has flipped her lid in rehab, trying to hang herself with a bedsheet after screaming “I am the anti-christ” to frightened staff.

She made the demonic cry after scrawling the devil’s number “666” across her head.

Guess this gets Ann Coulter off the front page and Bush off the hook.

Boazo